More information : (SP 33657905) Bishop's Palace (site of) [NR].(1)
Bishop's Palace, (site). Associated with the adjacent Benedictine
Priory, (SP 37 NW 47). Demolished in 1856.(2)
Depicted as 4 ranges around a central courtyard.(3)
The Bishop's Palace, incorporated in a `mean house' at the NE corner of St Michael's Churchyard, disappeared when Priory Street was constructed in 1856-7.
The bishops do not appear to have had their own residence in Coventry before 1224-5, when the prior and convent granted Bishop de Stavensby a plot adjoining their graveyard on which a building was to be erected. In 1283, the episcopal house was delapidated, so the prior and convent granted a plot on a neighbouring site for a house to be built, with 200 marks for the existing house to be renovated and construction of additional buildings. This enlarged building may have been the `palace' which was leased by the bishop in 1324.(4) |